Re: [dev] Contribution Ideas

[Thomas Lange - Oracle]

Hi Patrick,

> Hey,
> 
> My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for my 
> software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that 
> requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our choice. I 
> decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with the software. 
> He suggested I do something simple, such as adding functionality to the 
> Writer's formula bar or something along those lines.
> With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you 
> would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there are 
> any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level of 
> difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward to 
> helping improve OpenOffice.

Right now I really don't remember that anyone asked to add some new
formula functionality. And it is also long since I've seen an issue to
fix in this area. Ideally it would be nice if Writers calculator would
offer the very same functionality (and syntax) as it available in Calc
but I suspect that kind of task is far beyond the available time frame.

May it would help if you state with what programming language you have
experience, and much more important, how much time you have available
for this. After all there are many things that could be done but quite a
few of them would need a lot of time, while on the other hand some few
may be too small to be acceptable to your professor.

You should probably have a look at the ToDo lists for the various
applications and maybe contact the project leads as well.

As for list of ToDos (unfortunately there is no single place for them)
you may look here:

- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/ToDo
- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/To-Dos
-
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Impress#Planned_.2F_ToDo.27s_.2F_Seeking_for_Community_support

- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/To-Dos

And for a list of contacts:
- http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html


Thomas



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Re: [dev] Contribution Ideas

[eric b]

Hello,


FYI, there is the OpenOffice.org Education Project, welcoming  
students, and proposing applications (but not extensions, see Ariel  
answer in this case). The idea is to work with students and profs  
from a given school, and solve a problem discovering OpenOffice.org  
source code.


Our communication is based on IRC and mailing lists + weekly IRC  
meetings and project reviews.


If you are interested, please have a look at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort

One of our projects is OOo4Kids, and we have a lot of Fun with that :
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/WelcomeStudents

And if you want to discuss directly online with us, there is  
#education.openoffice.org channel, on irc.freenode.net server.



Regards,
Eric Bachard


Le 19 oct. 10 à 02:52, Patrick W. McDonald a écrit :


Hey,

My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University,  
and for my software engineering class the professor has assigned us  
a project that requires us to make a contribution to an open source  
project of our choice. I decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm  
fairly familiar with the software. He suggested I do something  
simple, such as adding functionality to the Writer's formula bar or  
something along those lines.


With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular  
formulas you would like to see supported by the formula bar, or  
barring that if there are any other ideas that you have that would  
be at around the same level of difficulty to implement. Thanks for  
any responses, and I look forward to helping improve OpenOffice.


-Patrick
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Re: [dev] Contribution Ideas

[Ariel Constenla-Haile]

Hello Patrick,

On Monday 18 October 2010, 21:52, Patrick W. McDonald wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for
> my software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that
> requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our
> choice. I decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with
> the software. He suggested I do something simple, such as adding
> functionality to the Writer's formula bar or something along those lines.

AFAIK Writer's formula bar is not accessible to API clients, this means you 
will have to deal with OOo source code, what is no good idea to your 
assignment: you should try to use OOo API for your task (so you don't need to 
mess with OOo source code).

For example, it is possible to add new functions to OOo Calc, developing an 
add-in (very easy to do with the OOo API plug-in for NetBeans IDE).

> With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you
> would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there
> are any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level
> of difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward
> to helping improve OpenOffice.

Please join the mailing list for API related topics, and the one for 
extensions development. You can subscribe by sending an e-mail to the 
following addresses and following the instructions in the mail you get back:

dev-subscr...@api.openoffice.org
dev-subscr...@extensions.openoffice.org

You can ask there about any doubts concerning your OOo-API-based project.

Regards
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Re: [dev] Contribution to the PDF Import filter for Writer

[Mathias Bauer]

arkarell wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm an engineer specialist on documentary process, I worked nine years 
> in Xerox company and I'm now freelance in my own society named Arkarell.
> I worked a lot on xml related technologies (and even SGML at the 
> beginning)  like xslt or xsl-fo.
> I focused my work on publishing part of industrial system of production 
> of technical documentation.
> In this context, I used extensively the openoffice.org solution as 
> "publishing desktop software" with its underlying format OpenDocument.
> I've been working on a open source digital library named Castore 
>  for a french engineering school ('/Ecole 
> des Nines de Nantes/') for which I've implemented a conversion tool of
> text documents into structured xml with use of OpenDocumentText as a 
> pivot format. The input formats contain PDF and then my work on PDF 
> includes a conversion of PDF into ODT format.
> I've already begin this work which is based, for parser part, on xpdf 
> library.
> I keep reading the information about your pdf import filter and today I 
> tested your very new extension of import PDF into draw dated June 11. I 
> think I can help you for this feature
> because I have motivation, time, some budget and, I hope, some knowledge 
> to help moving forwards.
> 
> Could you explain to me how can I contribute to OpenOffice.org on this 
> filter ?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Arnaud Malguy
> /Arkarell
> Moëlan sur mer - France
> /
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Just for the records (and to let anybody know that something is going
on): as Arnaud is not subscribed anyway, I have contacted him off-list
last week and we already are in touch about the subject. More to follow.

Ciao,
Mathias

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Re: [dev] Contribution

[Charles-H. Schulz]

Hello Ganesh,

thank you for your interest in OpenOffice.org . As a programmer, there
are two main options for you.
-Either join the VBA project (http://vba.openoffice.org and
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA)
- Help with the localization . OpenOffice.org is localized in many Indic
languages (Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, and much more). See
here: http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html

Or help by working in two projects... :-)  In any case, don't forget to
register and sign the JCA.

Welcome to OpenOffice.org,

Charles-H. Schulz.



Ganesh Dattatreyan a écrit :
> Dear Friends,
>
> I am Ganesh Dattatreyan Iyer from India. I am using Open-office 2.2.0 and
> have found it as a good replacement for MS-Office. My Details are as
> below:
>
> Work Profile : VB Programmer
> Company : Fast Facts Computer Systems Ltd
> Place I live in : Dombivli ( suburb closer to Mumbai) , India
>
> I also work on GNU Linux at my home and a keen follower of Open Source
> activities. Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and many others have
> motivated
> me through their works.
> I would definitely like to contribute to Open Office as a developer or
> as a
> writer. Please guide me accordingly.
>
> Regards,
> Ganesh Dattatreyan Iyer
>

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Re: [dev] contribution

[Mathias Bauer]

Lawrence Quinn schrieb:

> hi,
> I would like to help this (these) project(s).  I have skills as both a 
> programmer and a technical writer.
> If you have needs in either area, let me know.
> Lawrence Quinn

thanks for your interest in our project.

The best place to get informed about OOo development is

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page

You should also have a look on our projects at

http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html

Many projects have a "to do" list on their project pages so please visit
the project(s) you find interesting. If you want to know more about a
project please write a mail to the dev mailing list of this project.

Best regards,
Mathias

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RE: [dev] Contribution to OpenOffice

[Keskar, Dhananjay V]

Hello Uday, 

There are many contribution areas. A good place to start is to look at
the wiki: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page

There is work for many kinds of skillset and commitment levels and many
areas of interest. 

Assuming you have a dev machine, suggest using Linux - OpenSuse 10.1 is
excellent, free, and many of the helpful developers who hang out on IRC
#go-oo can help you with it. 

Core development contributions would be in C/C++. 
Or you can use Python to add plug-in components and features. 

If you are handy with a debugger, you can fix some bugs, especially the
ones you find personally irritating. You can help with performance
improvements. How about CTL (Indic languages) layout & handling? 

You can also help the developer community itself by developing and
maintaining tools and scripts using Perl or Python. The Buildbot:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Buildbot could benefit from
some additional features. 

The best way to start is to hangout on IRC, setup the dev machine,
download the source, build and use Openoffice.org and then pick a task
or area. At any of the points above, feel free to ask for help. 

Ciao
Dhananjay 

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Subject: [dev] Contribution to OpenOffice

Dear sir/madam,

I am interested to contrib in programming section for open office. Pls 
help me to get started.

Thanks
Uday

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Re: [dev] Contribution to OpenOffice

[Malte Timmermann]

Cool  :)

What's your main interest - core, components, helping on bug fixes?

If your answer is "writing a helpful component for OOo from scratch", I
would suggest writing the "Creative Commons" component.

http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=17284

I think there is a lot of interest in such a component, but nobody
volunteered to write that (right now).

Advantage is that the component development didn't start yet, so you can
do it completely on your own, and that you will have all the help you need.
Laurent Godard volunteered to help on the basics, I volunteered to help
on the content specific questions.

Interested?
Malte.

Uday Tashildar wrote, On 08/21/06 17:39:
> Dear sir/madam,
> 
> I am interested to contrib in programming section for open office. Pls 
> help me to get started.
> 
> Thanks
> Uday
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Re: [dev] Contribution

[Christian Junker]

Hi Steve,

see api.openoffice.org, especiall the Developer's Guide and the IDL
reference and
udk.openoffice.org if you want to delve more into the details of UNO.
Those two projects also have mailinglists (dev-mailinglist), where you
can get/provide further information.

2006/6/27, Steve High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Greetings

I am interested in helping in the continued awesomization of OpenOffice.

My specialty is LAMP environment programming, and I would be interested in
creating some sort of API that would allow the creation/editing of OOo
documents remotely via a web interface.  If this is not feasible, I would
like to help out in any way I can.

Please point me in the right direction, because I have never participated in
an open collaboration before.

Thanks
-steve high

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Re: [dev] Contribution request from a newbie programmer

[CPHennessy]

On Sun October 23 2005 10:02, gurkan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am a newbie programmer and I want to contribute this project. I don't
> know where to start. I need some help to choose a field to contribute.
>
> Thanks for your interest...

Hi Gürkan,
 How about helping with the scripting project 
http://scripting.openoffice.org ?

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http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ

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